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    In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley introduces a feminine gender role within the character, The Wretch. Although he was physically created male, he represents feminine characters outside the text. Shelley implicates this role relating to John Milton’s biblical characters, Eve and Satan, from his “patriarchal” epic, Paradise Lost. From this epic and the novel, Eve, Satan, and The Wretch are represented as “fallen angels”, who are the characters that have sinned against their Creator and…

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    But in the following decades the black authors increased their resistance, attributing the African ethos a higher importance in the literary publications and releasing socio-critical stories about the misery resulting from racial segregation, which were partly construed as hate literature. A recurring motif in African-American literature is the image of the tragic mulatto – an archetypical mixed-race person, who fails to completely fit in the white world…

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    Night Rhetorical Analysis

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    Regarding the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel wrote Night, for the sake of showing his readers, that he was, indeed, a rightful candidate to stand up for all of the Jewish people who were tortured and murdered during that gruesome event. To ensure that he would reach his goal, Elie Wiesel used emotional, logical, and ethical appeals. To begin, Elie Wiesel showed emotional appeals, by sharing the tragic experiences he had, and the terrible events he witnessed, while he was in the concentration camp. He…

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    Dr. Martin Luther King

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    King is deaf to the misery of pupils taking standardized tests and too open to commercial involvement in the system. 5) Do you think the parents would react differently if Dr. King were white? I do believe that the parents would have been more respectful if Dr. King were white…

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    her confines. Everyday she would exhaust herself, not at all bothered by the dull ache in her hands, due to all of the hard labor forced upon her. She had been waiting for nearly a year before she was released, and no longer trapped in a world of misery. All the Agony she went to was worth it, she now resides in the palace of the kingdom that locked her up.…

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    All through Fifth Business, the guilt is constantly present yet it isn't until the genuine physical appearance of this whole legacy of awful emotions, past encounters, and overpowering guilt (the bit of stone itself) that things can start to find some conclusion in the primary book. While every character manages guilt in his own particular manner, it is huge to consider how Boy Staunton's guilt is showed not through an outward effort reconcile the past however to swing to stone keeping in mind…

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    Both Seeing and A Woman on the Street are reflections of how sight morphs reality and emotional responses. The sense of sight is shown to not only provide one with an image of the world, but also affect where one places value, finds beauty, and even shape ones’ way of thinking. The power associated with seeing, gives it the ability to influence thoughts and emotions, which in turn impacts actions. Viewing sight as the root of emotional responses is key to each view, and also prompts the…

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    Forced to be fake, they fight to get real. Fake: Book One of the Crossroads Penny Sparrow is trapped in a lie. Attempts at rebellion against her fake life only lead to more misery as she’s bullied at school and suppressed at home. She makes an ally when she meets Lennon. This ragged street hustler is actually the heir of the Two Dragon Clan and the descendant of a powerful dragon. Murderous relatives have forced him into hiding. The two teens become friends, and perhaps something more, but…

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    is the narrator in The Book Thief, he is especially interested in the Liseal. Death is aware that he has taken Liesel’s love ones, but not with ill intentions, because he sees the suffering that humanity is laid upon them and just wants to end the misery of certain humans. Zusak once claimed “It seemed to make that war and death are best friends. Who better to tell stories during wartimes than Death, because he’s everywhere at that time? It just struck me that Death could be the missing piece…

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    Secret Path - Journal 3 For the last song of the Secret Path, Here, Here and Here, indicates the number of victims and miseries in the dark past of residential schools. Allowedly, the word - here - repeats itself 26 times with distinct beginning; for instance, “I hurt here, here and here” symbolized that numerous children suffered in 80 discrete but homogeneous residential school. Likewise, the title - Secret Path - inspired me a lot. Confessedly, Secret Path represents the drainage to the…

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